There are a lot of changes but for now, I will concentrate on my (or our) Technical Dept. For the whole of the morning, we were busy preparing the framework for the partition walls. From an outside point of view, it looks very simple:
1) Lay the metal frames on the floor, drill a hole and put the screw in.
2) Lay the metal frames on to the wall, drill a hole and put the screw in.
3) Lay the metal frames on the ceiling, drill a hole and put the screw in.
Easy, right? Not really.
First, you have to make sure that the metal frames are properly aligned so that the walls would be solid later on. In order to do this, there are various method with lasers being one of them. However, in the absence of the tool, we went old-school, using strings with pendulum and a water hose. The latest would be to buy a "rocket" which has all the laser lines. You just align your metal frames onto the laser lines and that's it. Saves a lot of time too.
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Part of the wall/frame is ready. By next week, we willtake stock of the partition boards. There will be a little
perspex window so that we can make faces at the clerk.
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This crimp tool is used to mate the two pieces of metalframe together. Punches a small rectangle and then
the leftover flaps from it will be used to clamp them.
Something like a reverse stapler. You cannot use a
rivet tool here because the holes are round and so,
the pieces would flex a lot. Unless you use a lot of
rivets. But this would mean drilling a lot of holes for
the rivets which would take a lot of time.
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While everyone learns and try their handat making the wall, myself included, I also
used the cutter and the crimping tool to
make myself a little phone holder to put
in the car. Its far from finished but this is
to show you how easy to make something
with that crimp tool. (And also it shows
how long I skived on the job......Ha ha ha)
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